Self-Degradation Quotes

A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.

Envy not greatness: for thou mak'st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.

He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. Whoever yields to temptation debases himself with a debasement from which he can never arise.

It's horrible to be a sex object at any age, but at least when you're an adult you can make the decision if you want to degrade yourself.

Yes, I know," "And I love to hear you say it, Louis. I need to hear you say it. I don't think anyone will ever say it quite like you do. Come on, say it again. I'm a perfect devil. Tell me how bad I am. It makes me feel so good!

I never mingled with men, but I came home less of a man than I went out.

The worst thing that can happen to us in an ideological struggle is to become what we are fighting.

One does not reflect on a point of honor - that is already dishonor. To submit to insult, to forget a humiliation, to quail before an enemy - all these are signs of a life become worthless and superfluous.

When our hatred is too alive puts us below what we hate.

I must oppose any attempt that Negroes may make to do to others what has been done to them. . . . I know the spiritual wasteland to which that road leads . . . whoever debases others is debasing himself.

I think it's a very female trait to want to please men and to want to be considered the Cool Girl. And if you take that to the farthest reach, where you're actually selling yourself out and degrading yourself by doing things you don't actually want to do, only in order for this man to think that you do, that's a very perverse thing.

I must live in my own excrement, breathe in my own poisonous sticky fumes. Yet I am a human being! I still am. Does no one think of that?

The horrible pleasure of pleasing inferior people.

Only man can stop being fully man. He can ascend above all degres of universal existence and by the same token fall below the level of the basest of creatures.

And if I drink oblivion of a day, / So shorten I the stature of my soul.

Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern.

To sell yourself is somewhat debasing, and everyone is selling something.

I don't mean to sound like a cheap prostitute, but you can call me what you like.

But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for you. Mediocrity's a hairball coughed up on the Persian carpet of Creation.

I've made a terrible confession to you, he concluded gloomily. Do appreciate it, gentlemen. And it's not enough, not enough to appreciate it, you must not just appreciate it, it should also be precious to you, and if not, if this, too, goes past your souls, then it means you really do not respect me, gentlemen. I tell you that, and I will die of shame at having confessed to such men as you.

I can't understand why people so readily put themselves up to be humiliated.

I would have to go back to being a dog. I've called myself a dog for many years.

Having one's image, and effectively, life, democratized, dehumanizes and sometimes objectifies it into an entertainment product. What sort of valuation of the ego would one have once you've let it been preyed upon by the public for years and years? Perhaps, it becomes truly just skin and bones.

How ironical that it is by means of speech that man can degrade himself below the level of dumb creation -- for a chatterbox is truly of a lower category than a dumb creature.

It's silly when girls sell their souls because it's in.